Chapter title |
Predicting RNA Structure with Vfold
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
Functional Genomics
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7231-9_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7230-2, 978-1-4939-7231-9
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Authors |
Chenhan Zhao, Xiaojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen |
Abstract |
In order to carry out biological functions, RNA molecules must fold into specific three-dimensional (3D) structures. Current experimental methods to determine RNA 3D structures are expensive and time consuming. With the recent advances in computational biology, RNA structure prediction is becoming increasingly reliable. This chapter describes a recently developed RNA structure prediction software, Vfold, a virtual bond-based RNA folding model. The main features of Vfold are the physics-based loop free energy calculations for various RNA structure motifs and a template-based assembly method for RNA 3D structure prediction. For illustration, we use the yybP-ykoY Orphan riboswitch as an example to show the implementation of the Vfold model in RNA structure prediction from the sequence. |
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